2010 Southeast Garden Railroad Clinic Schedule
Friday, April 30
Powering Up the Garden Railroad
1:00
Ed Dice, with the Emerald Coast Garden Railway Club, will give a quick paced discussion on the various means for powering up your Garden Railroad. Covering the traditional analog power packs and progressing thru some radio control and digital command control. This is not an all-inclusive expose. But it will be beneficial for everyone, beginner to experienced. Also included with be discussion/demonstration for incorporating Aristo-Craft Revolution into your garden railroad so you can have the best of both worlds. Plus, solar power for the new green world.
Advanced DCC Programing
2:00
Loco Lee will cover advanced DCC programming using Decoder Pro, and QSI's CV Manager. His seminars are a must for anyone who wants to learn how to program locomotives using JMRI, or QSI's CV manager. Here is your chance to attend what has been called "The best DCC class ever offered", and " Unbelievable ", I didn't know you could do so much with a decoder" This is the same seminar that has had standing room only crowds all over the country, and will be given at the 75th NMRA convention in Milwaukee WI. So don't miss this opportunity to get the same training that the pros get. Here's your chance to learn DCC from Loco Lee.
Designing and Building Structures from Wood
3:00
Don Nute has scratch-built many structures for his own and other garden railroads using different materials. In this clinic, he will explain how to design and build simple structures out of wood from photos of prototypes buildings.
Building Large Custom Steam Locos
4:00
Buddy Rickard is well know for his help in developing some of the Aristo large steam locos. He will present some samples of his work while telling how he does some of his masterpieces including models of large steam locomotive prototypes.
Building goldfish Transport Tank Cars
5:00
Need a sustom car to tranport those prize goldfish? Mark Fuhrman from the Knosville Model Railroad club and DIY-TV fame will show you how. Mark has many years experience in scratch-building from cars and buildings to entire garden railroads. He will share not only the tank car, but a few other hints as well.
Saturday, May 1
Powering Up the Garden Railroad
9:30
Ed Dice, with the Emerald Coast Garden Railway Club, will give a quick paced discussion on the various means for powering up your Garden Railroad. Covering the traditional analog power packs and progressing thru some radio control and digital command control. This is not an all-inclusive expose. But it will be beneficial for everyone, beginner to experienced. Also included with be discussion/demonstration for incorporating Aristo-Craft Revolution into your garden railroad so you can have the best of both worlds. Plus, solar power for the new green world.
Operating Sessions on the Garden Railroad
10:30
Don Nute and wife Jane have run monthly operating sessions where trains drop off and pick up cars on their garden railroad for the past six years. Most of their operators are between six and ten years old. Don will discuss how to design your layout for good operations and will describe two paperless systems that can be used with younger or older operators.
Battery Power Your Train
12:00
Dick and Rick Isard from Cordless Renovations will show you an easy way to power your train, how to choose the right battery for your application, discuss the pros and cons of Nimh & Lithium batteries, and how they use a drop-in circuit board to eliminate wires to power your train. If you haven’t yet decided what kind of system to use to power your garden railroad, or if you are thinking about switching to DCC, you must see this presentation.
Digitrax Digital Command Control
1:00
Paul Lator, owner of Southeast Digital in Stone Mountain, Georgia, will explain how to set up and operate a DCC system on your garden railroad using equipment from Digitrax. If you haven’t yet decided what kind of system to use to power your garden railroad, or if you are thinking about switching to DCC, you must see this presentation.
Building Your Own Switches
2:00
Dave Cummins – known to many from articles in Outdoor RailroaderI as Do-It-Yourself-Dave! He will be showing how to scratch build your own switches. Dave will also have a table set up during the show near the Georgia Garden Railway Society layout where he will be operating some of his 7/8” scale equipment.
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